Natural Language Semantics

Natural Language Semantics (NLS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering formal semantics and its interfaces in grammar, especially in syntax. The journal features mainly research papers as well as some short essays. It is considered one of the top four journals in formal semantics, alongside Linguistics and Philosophy, the Journal of Semantics, and Semantics and Pragmatics.^[1]

Natural Language Semantics

Discipline	Linguistic semantics
Language	English
Edited by	Amy Rose Deal
Publication details
History	1993–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Nat. Lang. Semant.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	NLSEEM
ISSN	0925-854X (print) 1572-865X (web)
LCCN	93643719
JSTOR	0925854X
OCLC no.	243539944
Links
Journal homepage Online access

History

NLS was founded in 1993 by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer, who served as its first editors-in-chief. It was founded in order to provide a venue for research that integrates formal semantics with other branches of linguistics, in contrast to previously established journals that emphasized connections to logic and philosophy of language.^[2][3]

Reception

NLS grew to be the central venue for the then-emerging study of crosslinguistic variation and typology within formal semantics.^[4] The journal played a crucial role in establishing formal semantics as a core area within theoretical linguistics.^[2][3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.1.^[5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Scopus
• EBSCO databases
• Academic OneFile
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Linguistic Bibliography
• Bibliography of Linguistic Literature
• FRANCIS
• Linguistics Abstracts